Yivalla Dinkaa

Experience

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  IPSoft Inc

  Apr 2015 - Jul 2017

  SOC Analyst

  ● Monitoring SIEM for suspicious events and abnormal activities ● Assis with the creation of the daily Information Security report and shift reports and pass down emails to the incoming shift members● Educate users on malicious emails, different phishing techniques, malicious link etc.● Escalates cyber security events as per run books and standard operation procedures (SOPS)● Maintain a professional communicative relationship with internal customers and management to provide important facts throughout the incident.● Escalate incident within the incident respond lifecycle Show less

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  Sandy Spring Bank

  Aug 2017 - Oct 2020

  Scrum Master

  ● Coordinate effective utilization of internal resources assigned to our Agile Scrum Team by enabling effective communication channels, creating safe environment, tracking and radiating team level information such as velocity, burn-down charts to team members. ● Facilitate the demo of working prototypes with customers, PO and stakeholders● Ensure that the scrum team remains in the rhythm of continuously delivering customer and business value.● Coordinated and facilitated team leads for resource allocation, sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospectives stakeholder meetings and software demonstrations.● Ensured that development teams don’t get distracted by identifying impediments and focus on product backlog project timeline.● Worked with product owner to understand user story and maintain continuous delivery of features.● Coached team on scrum practices and gave scrum trainings for feature improvements in the agile framework. Show less

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  HITRUST SERVICE CORP

  Nov 2021 - now

  Scrum Master

  • Works with the product owner and stakeholders to create a detailed roadmap for the sprints and future product releases.• Helped teams write good stories representing vertical slices of value using the INVEST criteria and other story splitting techniques.• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or reputation, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving.• Led and facilitate sprint reviews, daily scrums, retrospective and planning meetings to realize full teams’ engagement.• Used metrics and data visualizing tools like burn up and burndown chart and velocity chart to track and communicate progress and management tools using JIRA.• Mentored and coached teams on creation and maintenance of scrum team artifacts including product backlog, sprint backlog and Definition of Done.• Fostered cross-team coordination as part of my responsibilities to align and gather feedback for process improvement and organizational change management. Show less